EMC XtremIO, VMAX and Isilon get new CPUs and data services

EMC has announced
several hardware product upgrades centred on a move to Intel Ivy Bridge CPU for boosted
performance and new models, with improved data services in its XtremIO all-flash
array, VMAX enterprise SAN and Isilon scale-out NAS products.

The XtremIO all-flash array product range has new additions to the family in the form of a 5TB
“baby X-brick” expandable to 10TB and a six X-Brick cluster for 120TB total capacity.

The XIOS 3.0 operating
system (OS) has been upgraded with the addition of new data services. These include: AES256
hardware-accelerated data-at-rest encryption;
compression that EMC claims will give a 2x to 4x data reduction rate for database workloads, for
example claiming 540TB from 90TB of physical capacity, and; “zero overhead” snapshots
that update changed blocks and don’t rewrite metadata.

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EMC’s VMAX enterprise SAN arrays have
been given a facelift with better performance from Ivy Bridge processors and new model
designations, the 100K, 200K and 400K products, the latter of which scales to 3.2PB.

Meanwhile, VMAX gets new controller software – Hypermax – dubbed a “storage
hypervisor” by EMC. This adds data services to VMAX, including a “dynamic virtual matrix”
capability that sees CPU cores and memory performance allocated to where they are needed according
to user-set policy-based provisioning that gives service levels based on, for example, response
time, latency and IOPS.

Hypermax OS also incorporates Protectpoint, which gives backups from the SAN direct to backup
hardware, bypassing traditional backup infrastructure.

EMC also announced upgrades to its Isilon scale-out
NAS product family. These include incorporation of Ivy Bridge processors and new models – the
S210 and X410 – arrays aimed at transactional and high throughput workloads respectively, as well
as a new iteration of the OneFS OS.

The S210 offers up to 3.75 million IOPS in a 144 node cluster while the X410 offers a claimed
200GB/second per cluster.

EMC also announced SmartFlash, which provides flash as cache in Isilon systems.

A key new feature announced is the planned addition of new storage access methods to Isilon. SMB
access is available immediately with the Hadoop big
data file system HDFS
and OpenStack
open source cloud storage access promised for later this year.

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